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Opposition to the Sinclair candidacy was focused on the plump, round-faced and by no means inspiring person of Republican Frank Finley Merriam. A small-bore, Iowa-born politician who was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1930, Frank Merriam of Long Beach became Acting Governor when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last June. The San Francisco general strike and a shrewd stratagem won him his nomination for the coming election. Prior to the strike, onetime Governor Clement Calhoun Young had been assured Republican support by no less a faction than Herbert Hoover & friends. When big industrialists began to beseech Acting Governor Merriam...
...since the debacle of 1912. But politics do not sway his decisions. By law he holds office for 15 years, can be removed only by joint resolution of Congress or impeachment, is ineligible for reappointment. Personally affable, with eyes of merry blue, he speaks in a slow, quiet voice. Iowa-born, he was educated in Nebraska, practiced law there. Washington-polished, he plays golf in the 80's at the Congressional Club. Observers have long anticipated a collision between Comptroller McCarl and the NRA. Last week that collision seemed imminent. Upon the Comptroller's desk arrived a letter...
Like his predecessor Archbishop Lamy, Archbishop Gerken has been a builder. Iowa-born, he went to West Texas 26 years ago. In his Abilene parish he built ten churches, among them the first in the U. S. dedicated to St. Therese de Lisieux ("Little Flower"). In Amarillo diocese he built 35. In Santa Fe he now looks toward restoring old churches and shrines, installing their relics and treasures in proper fireproof vaults and cases. He will also apply himself to education (he has been president of Amarillo's Price Memorial College). An obstacle to him will be New Mexico...
...Holy See last week gave to the Roman Catholic diocese of Salt Lake, Utah a new bishop, Rev. James E. Kearney, 48, pastor-organizer in 1928 of the Church of St. Francis Xavier in The Bronx. Iowa-born, Bishop-elect Kearney studied at Teachers College in Manhattan and Catholic University in Washington. He is diocesan superintendent of Bronx schools, lecturer at Good Counsel College in White Plains. In Utah he will succeed another onetime Bronx pastor, Most Rev. John Joseph Mitty, 48, who was appointed last February to be Coadjutor Archbishop of San Francisco (TIME...
Elected board chairman was the largest man present, rotund George McClelland Reynolds of Chicago. Iowa-born 66 years ago, he is in his Sist year of banking. With his brother Arthur he built up the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust to fourth largest in the U. S., biggest outside New York. Famed as merger masters, the Brothers Reynolds accomplished their last coup in 1929 when their bank absorbed Illinois Merchants Trust Co., onetime stronghold of Ernest Hamill and John J. Mitchell...